US Patent Issued to President and Fellows of Harvard College on Jan. 27 for "Segmented alphanumeric display using electromagnetic microactuators" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,921, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Segmented alphanumeric display using electromagnetic microactuators" was invented by Michael Karpelson (Newton, Mass.), Rut Maria Pena Velasco (Cambridge, Mass.) and Robert J. Wood (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A segmented alphanumeric includes a display panel, at least one linearly actuated platform, and display elements. Each display element passes through an orifice in the display panel to generate protruded and segmented alphanumeric characters in combination with other extended display elements. A microactuato...